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consolidate the statutes of Canada and Upper Canada, Macaulay helped to reduce the whole statutory law of the country from its conquest to his own time into three volumes, a work of great labour and corresponding value, which he just lived to see completed. He was gazetted C.B. 30 November 1858, and knighted by patent 13 January 1859.
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hired Macaulay as his attorney when Jarvis was sued for trespassing during the riots. Macaulay advised his client to not plead innocence as he had witnessed the riots and would struggle to argue that defence. Macaulay suggested Jarvis claim that the property damage was for a morally appropriate
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On the first establishment of the Court of Common Pleas in December 1849 he was made the Chief Justice, and continued to preside there until his retirement on a pension in 1856, but afterwards became judge of the Court of Error and Appeal. As chairman of the commission appointed to revise and
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printed the letters with negative commentary. Macaulay responded by printing a pamphlet of his correspondence with Mackenzie, including letters Mackenzie marked as private. This pamphlet caused Mackenzie to publish personal information and gossip on the
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he maintained the strategy of claiming the riots were morally acceptable and the damage to the printing press and destroyed type was not worth £2000. His final offer was £300 to settle the lawsuit.
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under the pseudonym "A Churchwarden" explaining that Fenton had been fired and rehired in his position with the church. When Fenton's letter was published in the
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but left quickly hoping not to be seen by others. Another person recognised him laughing and trying to cover his face while walking away from the riot.
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Macaulay rejected Mackenzie's offer of £2000 to settle the lawsuit and counterproposed £200. In his communications with Mackenzie's lawyer
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denying a story that Fenton wanted to publish stories about the church. Mackenzie refused to print the letter, so Macaulay wrote to the
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In 1821, Macaulay married Rachel Crookshank Gamble, daughter of John Gamble (1755–1811), a Loyalist Surgeon with the
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Finding aid to the "James Buchanan Macaulay fonds" at the Archives of the Law Society of Upper Canada
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He rose rapidly in his profession and was an executive councillor during the administration of
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reason to stop Mackenzie's negative reporting and that they seek an out-of-court settlement.
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on 17 July 1883, at the home of her son-in-law, Edward Henry Bennett (1822–1897) J.P., of
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Macaulay died 26 November 1859, at the home he had built on his father's land in
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where two of his maternal aunts lived with their respective husbands: Admiral
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Macaulay served as an ensign in the 98th regiment. In 1812, he joined the
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and Elizabeth Tuck Hayter. His father was posted from
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